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New broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics

This is a 4-panel satirical comic illustrating purported new broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics. Panel 1 (top left, green checkmark): A full-body shot of a cisgender female athlete running on a track is marked as allowed. Panel 2 (top right, red X): An upskirt shot of a female athlete participating in pole vault is marked as prohibited. Panel 3 (bottom left, green checkmark): A close-up shot focusing on the prominent groin bulge of a transgender female athlete pressed against a pole vault bar is marked as allowed. Panel 4 (bottom right, red X): A full-body shot of a male athlete running on a track is marked as prohibited. The meme satirizes perceived inconsistent and controversial double standards in modern women's sports policy, mocking the contradiction between rules against sexualizing cisgender female athletes, acceptance of imagery highlighting biological male traits of trans female athletes competing in women's categories, and the exclusion of cisgender male athletes from women's sports coverage.
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Overview

This is a 4-panel satirical comic illustrating purported new broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics. Panel 1 (top left, green checkmark): A full-body shot of a cisgender female athlete running on a track is marked as allowed. Panel 2 (top right, red X): An upskirt shot of a female athlete participating in pole vault is marked as prohibited. Panel 3 (bottom left, green checkmark): A close-up shot focusing on the prominent groin bulge of a transgender female athlete pressed against a pole vault bar is marked as allowed. Panel 4 (bottom right, red X): A full-body shot of a male athlete running on a track is marked as prohibited. The meme satirizes perceived inconsistent and controversial double standards in modern women's sports policy, mocking the contradiction between rules against sexualizing cisgender female athletes, acceptance of imagery highlighting biological male traits of trans female athletes competing in women's categories, and the exclusion of cisgender male athletes from women's sports coverage.

Origin notes

This meme was obtained from an RSS feed of content posted to the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, under the original title 'New broadcasting guidelines for women's athletics'. It is an original satirical digital comic commenting on ongoing public debates over transgender athlete participation in women's sports and media broadcasting regulations for athletic events.

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